Murdered in Conard County by Rachel Lee

Author:Rachel Lee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-06-17T21:32:22+00:00

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THE TRIP TO the grocery felt almost like emerging from night into day. It was so damn normal, she thought as she and Gus wended their way through the aisles, sharing a cart. She even decided to splurge a little on a box of frozen clam strips and a bag of frozen North Atlantic cod. Her freezer wasn’t large, so she had to resist a whole lot more than that and stick to staples like boneless, skinless chicken breasts that provided a good protein base for almost anything, some frozen veggies and canned goods that would keep for a while.

When she was done, she realized she’d bought more than she usually did, and looked at the sacks she piled into the back of Gus’s truck.

“I overdid it,” she remarked.

He laughed. “You, too?”

She shook her head a little. “I share with my staff once in a while, but you can’t eat everything out of a box or a can. It gets boring.”

“Jars,” he said. “I depend on jars. Tomato sauce, Alfredo sauce, things like that.”

She nodded. “I’m stocked with enough soup cans to feed an army, I believe.”

“I love soup.”

They were both pretty cheerful as they pulled out of town and began rolling toward the mountains and the park.

Gus brought up the problem of storage. It seemed a safe enough topic, she supposed, because with each passing mile the shadow of the murder seemed to be looming larger.

“Can’t you get the state to give you a bigger refrigerator and freezer? It seems awfully small if you can’t get out of the park for some reason.”

“Mostly I only have to worry about myself,” she answered. “I always have some backup in the cupboards during the summer, and come winter I’ve got the world’s biggest freezer.”

He laughed. “True that.”

The road into the park began to rise before them, and way up above the mountain peak storm clouds seemed to be brewing. But something else was brewing inside Blaire, and finally she decided to address it directly.

“I must be crazy.”

“Why?” He turned the wheel a bit trying to avoid a pothole. The truck bumped only a little.

“Because it’s ridiculous to think the murderer might still be up there hiding out in the woods. And that even if he is, that he might kill someone else.”

“I don’t think that’s crazy.” Surprising her, he freed one hand from the wheel to reach over and squeeze hers. Just a quick squeeze because as the road grew rougher, he needed both hands to control the truck. “It would be easier to dismiss the idea if we knew why Jasper was killed. A reason for it. But as it stands, the whole damn thing is an ugly mystery, and now the possibility that five other murders might be linked makes it even worse.”

“Serial killer,” she said. The truck engine strained a little as the climb became steeper. A short distance with a steep grade that the park system kept talking about leveling out.

“Well, we don’t know that, either.

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